YouGov only started or restarted polling in January after a six month hiatus following the GE. Comparing today’s numbers with the January polling: Reform: +3 Labour: -8 Conservative: -4 Green: +8 Lib… (View Post)

The cheap jibe aside, one of my perennial bugbears in my local Government career was senior officers moving from meeting to meeting and often arriving late and unfocused and that applied both in the … (View Post)

I was in local Government which is different from the civil service and indeed it was my experience councils operated very differently from each other and the notion of a “local Government culture” i… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) In rural Derbyshire this week where today at least has been pretty bleak with rain on and off. East Midlands Railway (EMR) got us here and to be honest not bad at all. A very busy fi… (View Post)

First, thank you for the cogent and coherent response. I live in a strongly (by British standards) Muslim area but not all the Muslims come from Muslim countries - the Pakistanis obviously do but we … (View Post)